Lin Fan stepped forward, rushed into the carriage, grabbed Tian Wuji's collar with one hand, pulled him out of the carriage, and shouted and scolded: "Damn the dog thief, I'll kill you!" ”

Without waiting for Tian Wujian to struggle and resist, Lin Fan stabbed Tian Wujian directly into the chest.

"Heh... Scold... Scold! Tian Wujian looked at Lin Fan in disbelief, and opened his mouth to say something.

But the blood foam kept pouring out of his mouth, so that he couldn't speak, and could only make some painful hehe sounds.

The massive loss of blood caused his eyes to begin to drift and his breathing to a halt.

"Kill... Kill... Killed! ”

It happened too suddenly, and it wasn't until now that Tian Wuji's maids and servants began to react, and they fell out of the carriage and ran away screaming.

Lin Fan was worried that this would disturb the already unstable morale of the army in the city and cause turmoil.

He stood in the carriage and shouted at the crowd: "Shut up, and don't run; The troops of the inspection department obey the order, and whoever dares to shout and shout at me again to disturb the morale of the army will be punished on the spot! ”

Lin Fan's roar calmed the scene, and everyone fell silent. He also secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and finally did not cause a bigger mess.

Seeing everyone looking at him in horror, Lin Fan knew that he should do something to appease people's hearts.

He kicked Tian Wuji's body off the carriage for a moment, stood on the carriage and said to everyone: "This thief is greedy for life and afraid of death, ignoring the life and death of the people in the city, he only thinks about his own escape, and it is not a pity to die!" ”

"Today I will kill this liao, and if the court blames him in the future, I will confess my guilt. But I'm putting my words here, the thieves are pressing the border, and if anyone dares to say anything and flee, this is the end! ”

There was still a dead silence below, Lin Fan knew that killing alone was not enough to calm people's hearts, many people in the city had been frightened by the thieves, and now they were waiting for death, but they still had to give them confidence, let them know that this battle could be fought, otherwise this city would definitely not be able to hold.

Lin Fan continued: "Just before entering the city, I just got the news that the reinforcements from the imperial court are about to arrive, as long as we can hold the city for a few days, the official army can annihilate this thief army in one fell swoop." ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone below finally became a little angry, and some people timidly asked: "My lord, what you said is true?" ”

Lin Fan said loudly: "Of course, I guarantee with the head of the neck, if the reinforcements don't come, you will cut off my head!" ”

Since taking office, the things that Lin Fan has been doing for the people have finally had an effect, and the people still have some faith in his words, and now his words are much more effective than those of Yang Yuanwang and others.

With Lin Fan's guarantee, the atmosphere in the city finally stopped being like a pool of stagnant water and began to come alive.

The people still had a lot of questions to ask again, but Yang Yuanwang went up and smiled for Lin Fan and said, "Okay, okay, since the reinforcements are coming soon, let's go and rest quickly, Lord Lin will go with us to arrange the city defense!" ”

The people also knew that the defense of the city was urgent, and they could not disturb it, but could only disperse. Soon, news of the imminent arrival of reinforcements spread throughout the city, causing one cheer after another.

The sergeants also began to take to the streets to maintain order, and some of the chaos caused by the disorder in the city quickly calmed down.

In the county office, although Yang Yuanwang is the chief secretary of the county government, but Lin Fan is a military position, and he has fought so many battles, Yang Yuanwang thinks that the military dispatch is not as good as Lin Fan, so he recommended Lin Fan as the chief officer of the city guard, and he is the deputy and occupies the second seat.

This dynasty pursued the use of literature to control the military, and there were four people present who had official status, and among them, only Lin Fan and Yang Yuanwang were civil officials with meritorious reputations, and they were of the same grade.

In fact, Yang Yuanwang is the main bookkeeper, and his qualifications are older than Lin Fan, so he is more qualified to be the chief official. However, Yang Yuanwang decided like this, so naturally he didn't have the right for the two flag officers to speak.

On the main seat, Lin Fan saw that Zhang and Yang were about to speak and stopped.

He smiled and said comfortingly: "Don't worry, don't think about it, as long as the two of you are honest, I will treat today's incident as if nothing happened." The credit for defending the city will not be less than two! ”

Lin Fan's words Zhang and Yang were a lot more relieved, this time there was no chance to escape, it was impossible to say that they had no resentment towards Lin Fan in their hearts.

But at this point, it is obviously not a good choice to grasp this matter, and it is the most important thing to seize the time to make up for it.

Although they have not had much contact with Lin Fan in the past year, they still have trust in Lin Fan's character, and they can only choose Lin Fan now.

The two saluted and said, "Lord Lin is magnanimous, and the lower officials have thanked me here!" ”

Lin Fan smiled, revealed the matter, and began to discuss the matter with everyone.

Yang Yuanwang was the first to speak: "Now there are not enough troops in the city, there are more than 120 soldiers in the Inspection Department, and there are more than 250 soldiers in the two banners combined; In addition to the three classes of officials in the county government, the guards at the city gates in all directions were less than 500 people. With such troops, it is still difficult to defend one city wall, let alone defend four places? ”

Chen Fangshu said at this time: "My lord, there are more than 100 young and strong villagers in Chenjiazhai, who cultivate during farming hours and train some military methods in their spare time to prevent thieves from looting. Just before I came, the owner of the village said to me, my Chenjiazhai is willing to obey the command of the adults, and can help the adults defend the city. ”

Lin Fan said with a smile: "I have seen all those young and strong people in Chenjiazhai, and the training is quite orderly, if there is enough ordnance and armor, it is no worse than some officers and soldiers!" ”

He said to Yang Yuanwang again: "After a while, open the arsenal of the arsenal, take out the ordnance, and distribute it to them, which can be regarded as an extra force." There are also city defense equipment such as rolling logs and stones, which are all sent to the city wall as soon as possible. ”

Yang Yuanwang nodded and instructed the officials to do so.

Not long after, the officials rushed back and whispered a few words in Yang Yuanwang's ear, and Yang Yuanwang's face suddenly became ugly.

There was no need for Yang Yuanwang to speak, Lin Fan also knew what was going on, it must be that the ordnance in the arsenal was greedy, otherwise Yang Yuanwang would not have this expression.

Lin Fan didn't have much hope for this, so he couldn't talk about being too disappointed. Yongyang is a small county town, how many things can there be in the arsenal of a small military room?

Even if there is, the officialdom is like this, over the years, this arsenal has long been emptied by the officials in charge, Lin Fan just hopes that those corrupt officials will not go too far, and they can stay some, which is better than nothing.

Chenjiazhai is a combination of military and civilian, there are already a lot of weapons, and even some earthen shields, and now some more should be enough.

And the actual situation of the arsenal is similar to what Lin Fan expected, most of the ordnance in this arsenal has long been resold, leaving only some to act as a façade, as for the rest, it is all some broken copper and iron.

However, since the rolling wood and stones are really not expensive, there are still a lot left.

In addition, although this dynasty has never forbidden people to carry weapons, as long as they do not hurt people at will, swords, bows and arrows can be carried on the street. But armor and crossbows are still prohibited by the imperial court, and private possession is strictly prohibited.

Secretly possessing such things as armor and crossbows is tantamount to rebellion, even if the officials in charge dare to sell them, no one dares to buy them, so they all stay.

But the arsenal of a county town is too small, and the storage of these things is pitiful, so I can only hope that there will be some more crossbows and arrows in the library.

Yang Yuanwang was about to speak, wanting to explain a few words.

Lin Fan said: "Forget it, now is not the time to pursue this!" It's important to defend the city, so let's get down to business first! ”

Yang Yuanwang nodded, and ordered the officials to take out all the remaining ordnance, and organize people to send the rolling wood and stones to the city wall.

"Now we have more than 500 people, although it is not much, but Yongyang is a small city, and more manpower cannot be spread, and it is enough for 500 people to defend the city." Lin Fan looked at the people under him and said slowly.

Zhang Yanji was still a little worried, and asked: "But the thief army has at least twenty or thirty thousand people, and with the five hundred people in our hands, can we really hold it?" ”

Lin Fan said with a smile: "Zhang Feng'er's thief army seems to have tens of thousands of people, but the thief army is dragging families and mouths south, most of them are old and young, women and children, and the soldiers who can fight are no more than thirty percent." ”

"Even so, the thief army still has an army of six or seven thousand men to fight, and its strength is still far superior to ours." Zhang Yanji was still a little apprehensive.

Zhang Yanji's words also represent the thoughts of the people below, in fact, everyone has little confidence in holding Yongyang.

What Lin Fan has to do is to give everyone faith: "Although the enemy army is numerous, they are all peasants who were still digging in the soil some time ago, and they couldn't survive before they were coerced by Zhang Feng'er to rebel." These people are untrained, they don't even have a decent weapon in their hands, they can only go to battle with scythes and hoes, what kind of combat power can they have? ”

"Such an army, no matter how large the number is, is just a rabble!"

Seeing that everyone was still a little unconvinced, Lin Fan continued: "If you don't believe it, you can think about it, since Zhang Feng'er's incident, it seems that the momentum is huge, and he has taken Shen and Anzhou in succession; But if you think about it, has the thief army ever fought a tough battle? ”

"Nope! These cities were all in turmoil, and they were taken advantage of by the thief army, otherwise the thief army would not be able to defeat the state cities of Shenzhou and Anzhou. I even dare to pack a ticket, as long as we can hold it for more than ten days, the thief army should retreat without a fight! ”

When everyone saw that Lin Fan was full of confidence, they also had some confidence in their hearts, and they no longer had all the confidence like just now.

Lin Fan began to formally arrange the city defense: "Now the east gate city wall is the most perfect, Fang Shu, you and the lord of Chen Zhai will take your people to defend the east gate." ”

"Although the brothers of Chen Jiazhai have received a lot of training, they have not experienced a real war after all, so I will also ask Wang Hu to lead a team of brothers from the inspection department to help you."

"Subordinates obey!" Chen Fangshu took the order.

"The south gate and the west gate will be handed over to the two adults, Zhang and Yang, and their brothers!"

"The subordinate officer receives the order!" Zhang and Yang responded at the same time.

"As for the north gate, I will lead half of the brothers of the inspection department and those officials of the county government to guard it!" Lin Fan continued.

Yang Yuanwang said at this time: "Lord Lin, the city wall of the North Gate has been in disrepair for a long time, and it has long been damaged in many places, is it not appropriate for you to guard it, after all, you are now the chief official, and safety still has to be considered." ”

Lin Fan waved his hand and said: "It's okay, it's because of this that I have to guard the north gate, and I don't worry about the others." ”

"But I only brought half of the troops, and there were too few people, so I might as well bring the rest." Yang Yuanwang persuaded him.

Lin Fan smiled: "It's enough, aren't there still those servants, there are already quite a few of them!" ”

"As for the remaining fifty people in the Inspection Division, I plan to hand them over to Lord Yang."

"Me?" Yang Yuanwang was stunned for a moment, the four city walls had been arranged to defend themselves, and he was a little unsure why Lin Fan had to allocate extremely nervous manpower to himself, or the most elite patrol division soldier in the city.